Improvement in spool-boxes



B. F. CARPENTER.

Spool-Boxes'.

No.l47,60l, ParemdFeb.17.1874.

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ATTEIRNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN E. CARPENTER, 'on RosELLE, NEvT JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPOOL-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 149,601, dated February17, 1874; application filed December 29, 1873.

To all whom t may concern: l

` Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. (,ARPENa TER, of Roselle, in thecounty of Union and and then pointed outin the claims.

Figure l represents a vertical section of the apparatus, taken on theline x .r of Fig. 1. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view with the cover oft'.Fig. 8 is atop view of the tension-disk on the stand in the thread-box.Fig. 4 is a cross-section through the cutter on the line y y.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate eorresponding parts.

A is the box. B is the cover. C is a stand rigidly attached to thebottom of the box. The lower end of the stand is a socket, whichreceives a pivot-pin, I), which allows the box to be turned on the tableE. F represents spoolpivots, which. are fast in the bottoni of the box.G are the spools of thread. l-I represents the thread. lhe stand C maybe made of either metal, wood, or other suitable material. In thisexample of my invention I show a tension-disk, 1,1011 the stand, havinga hook or similar device for each spool. The thread from the spool maybe carried to this disk, as seen at J, for giving a tension to it andguiding it from the spool. This arrangement is not indispensable, as thethread may leave the spool, as seen at K, and be carried up through thedisk-plate L, which is designed to be about level with the top of thecover B. The holes in this disk are numbered on the top of this disk toindicate the number of the thread. M is a wheel formed of one or moreplates, around Ithe periphery of which is placed a close spiral wire, N,for holding the thread when it is beA ing out. The thread, as it iscarried up from the plate L, is passed between two of the con-Vvolutions ofthe spiral, and is compressed suiii ciently to hold it forcutting. Ois the cutter, which is semicireular in form, attached to thetop of the wheel-disk M at its ends, as seen in Fig. l, and is coveredby the spiral P. This spiral is broken away in the drawing to show thatthe knife O is attached to the arch Q of the stand. The thread iscarried over the spiral and forced down between two of the eonvolutionsonto the edge oi' the cutter, and is thus readily severed. In thuscutting the thread the` lingers of the operator are protected by thespiral.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent--n l. The combination, with a thread.cutter,0, of theeircuinjacent wire coil or protector I, applied as and for the purposedescribed.

2. The combination, with a thread-cutter, O, of a spiral wire, N, tohold the thread, in the manner set forth.

3. The combination, with a station ary threadcutter holder, O, of rotaryspool-box A B, as

and for the purpose specified.

4t. The combination, with spools G, arranged in arotary spool-box, of atensiondisk, I, hav ing: a hole for each spool, an apertured diskplate,L, thereabove, and the disk M, having spiral wire N, to maintain thethread at the proper tension at all points before being out, in themanner described.

BENJ. F. CARPENTER.

Witnesses:

T. B. MosIIER, Y ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

